Summary: In this lesson students will learn about the different types of rock which are igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. In addition to the type of rock, the rock cycle will be introduced and explained detailing how the types of rock under certain conditions can be transformed into another type of rock. We will discuss about the types of rock first and then use an interactive website to discover the ways in which rocks can change.The students will be paired up to research the rock cycle through the website. The portion of the interactive website used will be "how rocks change" and "transform the rock". After the students have used the interactive tools to see how the rocks change we will piece together the rock cycle using the information the student has discovered and learned. The rock cycle will be put together in class on Day 2. This lesson will take two, 50 minute class periods.
Objectives:
Students will understand the three different types of rock
Students will understand the terms magma and sediment and the role they play in the rock cycle.
Students will understand the processes by which rock can be changed into another type of rock.
Students will create the rock cycle from the information they have learned about rocks in class and off the interactive tool.
Students will use technology to examine how rocks are transformed in the rock cycle.
Students will create the rock cycle including all of the following steps: melting, cooling, weathering, erosion, heat and pressure, compacting and cementation.
I will have the students take out the rocks they collected and pose the question, "how do you think the rock you found was formed?"
I will use questioning to guide their thinking a little further. I will ask questions like "where do you think these little specks in some of the rocks have come from?" and "how do you think these little specks have become one solid object?"
Next I will have the students write down their ideas about their rock in their notebooks and have them leave space to write another answer, based on characteristics of rock from the rock cycle, after they have done the class notes.
After I will have the students put that page aside or flip to a new page in their notebooks.
To transition to the information about the rock cycle, explain to the students that they will have the tools in their mental toolboxes needed to identify their samples after todays's lesson.
timing = 5-10 minutes
Middle:
Using a prepared power point which includes notes and visuals have the students write down what sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks are.
I will hand out a guided outline for the students to use while they are navigating the website, at the end of the lesson they may attach this in their notebooks to be used as a study guide.
I will further explain that they will navigate through three pages of rock information and will be taking notes about the transformation of rocks in the rock cycle.
During the explanation I will encourage students to use the interactive videos embedded in the page which shows a visual of how the rock is changed by a certain method.
Once most of the students have reached the last of the three pages I will instruct the students to try," transform the rock" challenge link at the bottom of the third page ( it can also be accessed from http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/change4.html)
timing = 30-35 minutes
Closing:
Instruct the students to log out of the computers and staple their sheets into their notebooks.
Ask the students what they have learned about the rock cycle in their navigation of the website.
Ask the students to take out their planners and write down to study the information they found about the rock cycle and attempt to identify the form of rock they found in near their homes
Explain that they could access the website again when reviewing the information to look at the visuals again and to transform the rock.
timing = 5-10 minutes
Day two Instruction: Opening:
Have the students take out their rock sample and share what they discovered about their rock.( what type of rock it is and how it could have been formed)
Explain to the students that today they are going to make a visual of the rock cycle, which will include some of the conditions in which their rocks were formed and the type of rock they found.
timing = 15 minutes
Middle:
Ask the students what they learned about magma from their research the class before, remind them that they may refer to the notes they took from the class before.
Once they define magma, write it on the board and draw an arrow away from it. Ask the students what magma becomes when it is cooled.
Ask the students whether they think this process is reversible? if students do think it is ask the how could igneous rock become magma.
draw an arrow on the other side of igneous rock and ask the students what process they think would need to happen for igneous rock to become sediment? and write sediment on the board after the arrow.
If the students are not saying "weathering and erosion" for answers ask the students to think of the antacid tablet and what needed to happen for it to be broken down. make connections to chemical and physical weathering and erosion from previous lessons.
Ask the students which form of rock sediment can be changed into? Once they have said sedimentary, ask them what process needs to be applied to the sediment to transform sediment into sedimentary rock? ask the students if sedimentary rock can be formed back into sediment.
Explain to the students that sedimentary rock may be changed in to metamorphic rock. draw metamorphic on the board and draw a line from it to sediment, sedimentary rock and magma. Ask the students which way the arrows should be added to the lines and what processes would cause the arrow to be pointed in that manner in the rock cycle.
Continue to use prompting questions to fill in the entire rock cycle.
remember, to allow time in between each step for students to organize and fill in the rock cycle.
timing = 30 - 35 minutes
Closing:
Give the students the remaining class time to draw pictures or use color to emphasize certain aspects of the diagram.
give an example of what you mean by using drawing like adding color to emphasize temperature, such as using a blue arrow to describe cooling or a red arrow to describe melting.
timing = 5-10 minutes
Notes: accommodations:
a copy of the notes will be provided to all students whom need reading or writing supports.
a blank rock cycle will be provided for student whom need reading, writing or organizational supports. Arrows and blank spaces will be included for those students to fill in.
students whom need reading supports will be paired up with students whom are average to strong readers. important not to pair two weak readers together.
Title: The Rock Cycle
Summary: In this lesson students will learn about the different types of rock which are igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. In addition to the type of rock, the rock cycle will be introduced and explained detailing how the types of rock under certain conditions can be transformed into another type of rock. We will discuss about the types of rock first and then use an interactive website to discover the ways in which rocks can change.The students will be paired up to research the rock cycle through the website. The portion of the interactive website used will be "how rocks change" and "transform the rock". After the students have used the interactive tools to see how the rocks change we will piece together the rock cycle using the information the student has discovered and learned. The rock cycle will be put together in class on Day 2. This lesson will take two, 50 minute class periods.
Objectives:
Materials:
Instruction:
Day one
Opening:
Middle:
- Using a prepared power point which includes notes and visuals have the students write down what sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks are.
- I will hand out a guided outline for the students to use while they are navigating the website, at the end of the lesson they may attach this in their notebooks to be used as a study guide.
- Then I will explain to the students that they will be reading information about rocks and the rock cycle on http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/change.html
- I will further explain that they will navigate through three pages of rock information and will be taking notes about the transformation of rocks in the rock cycle.
- During the explanation I will encourage students to use the interactive videos embedded in the page which shows a visual of how the rock is changed by a certain method.
- Once most of the students have reached the last of the three pages I will instruct the students to try," transform the rock" challenge link at the bottom of the third page ( it can also be accessed from http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/change4.html)
- timing = 30-35 minutes
Closing:Day two
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